Obamacare: A ‘Signature Achievement’ of Unaccountable Bureaucracy - Massive Amounts of “Inconsistent Data” Remain Irreconcilable.

 

Arnold Ahlert / Canada Free Press

 

A little over a week ago, reports surfaced revealing that the so-called “back end” of the Healthcare.gov website remained months away from being completed. On Tuesday, the consequences of that ongoing fiasco were revealed. A pair of reports released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveal “internal” controls for evaluating healthcare applications are ineffective, and 85 percent of 2.9 million data “inconsistencies” on ObamaCare applications cannot be resolved, even after nine months of attempting to do so.

 

“The federal marketplace was generally incapable of resolving most inconsistencies,” one OIG report said. “Without the ability to resolve inconsistencies in an applicant’s eligibility data, the marketplace cannot ensure that an applicant meets each of the eligibility requirements for enrollment in a QHP [qualified health plan] and when applicable, eligibility for insurance affordability programs.”

 

For clarity sake it should be noted that 2.9 million inconsistencies does not mean there are 2.9 million applications in error. Due to the series of questions applicants are asked about their citizenship, Social Security number, income or incarceration status, it is possible that some applications may have multiple inconsistencies. Furthermore, those inconsistencies may not be inaccurate information, but rather data that cannot be matched with government sources from numerous agencies. “In some circumstances, the marketplace cannot verify an applicant’s information through available data sources,” the other report explained. “When this happens, it is referred to as an inconsistency. This may arise when Federal data available through the Data Hub or data from other sources are unavailable or do not exist, or because the information on the application does not match the data received through the Data Hub or from other data sources.”

 

The two most prominent unresolved inconsistencies were “citizenship and income.”

 

Only citizens and those with legal residence in the United States are eligible for Obamacare

 

Only citizens and those with legal residence in the United States are eligible for ObamaCare. Yet in keeping with his determination to send America’s illegal alien population mixed messages, President Obama promised during a March interview with Telemundo that “none of the information that is provided in order for you to obtain health insurance is in any way transferred to immigration services,” he explained. “So that’s something we’ve been very clear about. If you live in a mixed status family, then the son who could potentially be eligible for the children’s health insurance program or some other mechanism to get health insurance, he needs to be signed up. And the mother should not be fearful that in any way that’s going to affect—of course I understand the fear.”

 

That fear didn’t prevent 4000 illegals in Oregon from being signed up when state officials “accidentally” steered them from Medicaid to ObamaCare, despite the reality that the applications were hand-processed—because the state’s computers were offline and its software architects under investigation for possible fraud. And DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson doubled-down on Obama’s message in an open letter to the same “mixed status families,” before taking it one step further. “Enrolling in health coverage . . . will not prevent your loved ones who are undocumented from getting a green card in the future or who do not yet have a green card at risk,” he promised.

 

As for income, proper information is necessary in order to determine one’s eligibility for taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, as well as ongoing subsidies of one’s monthly premiums. As recently as last month the Washington Post reported that more than one million Americans may be getting incorrect subsidies because the incomes they reported “differ significantly” from those on file with the IRS. And while the government requires enrollees with discrepancies to verify their information within a 90-day window, only a fraction have done so. Yet the Post reveals that even those who have complied remain in limbo, because “important aspects of the website remain defective—or simply unfinished.”

 

The report seemingly updates that assessment, noting that the “number of applicants who may have exceeded the 90-day inconsistency period or for whom the inconsistency period was extended by the federal marketplace because the applicant demonstrated a good-faith effort in obtaining satisfactory documentation” remains undetermined.

 

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